frightened - Story 50420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the damp grass, the wallet heavy in his lap. The setting sun cast long shadows, making the park seem ominous. He kept looking around, his eyes darting from tree to tree, searching for any sign of danger.

He felt a tightening in his chest, a feeling of being watched. He could almost feel eyes on him, studying him, judging him. The silence of the park was unnerving, broken only by the chirping of crickets, which now sounded like mocking laughter.

He quickly closed the wallet and sat there a moment, feeling the panic rising. He didn't know what to do, how to make the panic stop. He was at a complete loss.

Emotion: frightened

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.74 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frightened. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frightened stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frightened emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frightened vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.324
`😰`	0.323
`worse`	0.301
`😖`	0.294
`느껴`	0.294

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.630
`la`	-0.616
`a`	-0.347
`"`	-0.345
`happy`	-0.294